things you should know about careers the confidence he carried about his
acting skills quickly got him his very first acting brave in salute
more a south korean romance drama where they played a college student
that was in 1994 and it was no small deal to shine in the very first acting
project my office followed thereafter and in the next year he appeared in a leading role in the
super successful charlotte drama series sunny days of youth it was just his second acting assignment
and he won several award nominations that year and back the best new actor honor
of the kbs drama awards the next few years came with several leaders in the television
he had mixed results as some of his shows worked while there were a few that didn't
some of them such as papa and first love got record viewership numbers
the 1999 series that we really love further established him as a fun young actor
and the series was also highly regarded by the critics as the best drama of the
in year came the drama series winter sonata which not only did wonders in south korea but
also played a major part in making korean shirts popular abroad as well it was about
love heartbreak and compassion and became a pan asian success in more than 20 countries
especially in japan where people went crazy over bay and it was not getting termed as
emperor yeon a japanese term implying a very high level of respect we will always
they had a very brief film career by then as he had previously appeared in two small
feature films back in the 90s but in 2003 came the film until scandal where he played
a sexually perverted anti-hero the film went on to become a massive success and
based performance was honored at that year's baeksan arts awards and korea film awards
by now bay was losing interest in acting and was looking out for other creative things to do
writing a book was on the to-do list for him and he went ahead with publishing his first book in
2004 titled the image volume 1 which looked back on base acting korea the book also featured body
images of bay as he trained very hard and remained on a very strict diet for his race
the book went on to become a success and his writing style was appreciated by the critics
the book saw more than 100 000 copies his next big screen venture was the film april snow a
2005 film where he played the role of like director who finds out that his wife was in
fact cheating on him after she gets into a road accident the film had a slow start when the poor
word out of mouth caused it to become a venture box office builder on the domestic boss office
after that he got involved with setting up his restroom business and made his much hyped come
back to the television in the year 2007 with the series the legend where he played gadduro as the
son of god and a ruler for each episode of the series bay was paid 250 million won which somehow
made him the highly paid south korean actor of all times bay was awarded the grand prize at the
nbc drama awards that year along with many other awards at the ceremonies the much-hyped japanese
anime version of his head series winter sonata was released in japan in 2009 and resulted in a
great respawn bait up his own character in the anime and as a result his fan falling further
increased in the neighboring country in the same year he started working on another book a journey
in search of korea's beauty which was released in 2009 and was mostly a collection of photo
essays about korean heritage the book became a bestseller and was later adapted as a documentary
film by mvc life and was further translated to english japanese chinese and taiwanese languages
he also acted as a producer for the 2011 teen drama series dream high telling about the
lives of a few south korean students studying the performing arts in high school they also acted as